It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.